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Through controlled and guided practice, students are gradually led towards writing accurate, cohesive, appropriate and more interesting paragraphs involving a variety of topics and functions.
These include:
explaining the functioning of a machine or instrument;
describing a process;
describing an object;
making comparisons;
describing tables and graphs;
explaining cause and effect;
writing formal and informal letters;
describing change over time; and
reporting speech and events.
Key Features
Each unit is divided into two sections. The first section includes:
looking at different texts
picking out language points
exercises for practising what you have learnt.
The second section covers:
sentence building
ways of joining short sentences together (conjunctions and punctuation)
putting sentences together to make paragraphs
punctuation, spelling, capitalization
checking what you have written
vocabulary building.
Contents
Unit 1: Describing things Unit 2: Describing how something works Unit 3: Describing how something is made Unit 4: Reporting what someone said Unit 5: Comparing Unit 6: Describing changes
Category: Better Writing, Teacher Resources and Photocopiables Level: Pre-intermediate to intermediate CEF: A2 to B1 IELTS: 3.0 to 4.5
